Programming Languages, Martials Arts and Computers. The Weblog of Chris Double.
I wrote earlier about refactoring the HTML5 video patch to allow different backends. I've now added a patch for GStreamer support to bug 422540. To build a Firefox with this support, get the latest trunk CVS source. Apply the patch from bug 382267, followed by the patch from bug 422540. Build with the --enable-gstreamer configure option. Or follow these steps... more →
The git repository has multiple branches which means a little more git usage is needed to get at the Ogg (and soon, GStreamer) backends. When you clone or pull from the repository you'll automatically pick up the commits for the new branches. You can see these branches with 'git branch -r': $ git clone git://double.co.nz/git/video.git $ cd video $ git... more →
I've making some changes to the patch implementing the HTML <video> element for Firefox. Previously the patch attached to the bug contained the implementation of the video element and a Theora backend implemented using liboggplay. This required pulling in a large amount of third party library code making it more difficult to get reviews for the patch and to get... more →
Adobe have released the Flex SDK as open source. The trunk of the SDK repository contains the source to the ActionScript compiler and the GlobalOptimizer component that can be used for generating code used in Tamarin Tracing. To build the asc.jar required by Tamarin, first get a copy of the current source, change to the 'modules/asc/build/java/' directory and run 'ant'... more →
I've updated the git repository to improve the support for Linux. I've uploaded a new build, which can be obtained from the test page or downloaded here. This is the first build using the ALSA backend that I posted about previously. The sound playback is much improved over previous Linux builds, and so is the a/v sync - as long... more →